Denise Kiernan | Author, etc.
@denisekiernan.com
COMING 2026: OBSTINATE DAUGHTERS
Author: THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY, THE LAST CASTLE, WE GATHER TOGETHER & other writerly whatnot
Books, &c: denisekiernan.com
Host: CRAFT: Authors in Conversation
#photography #climate #historynerd #vegan #ASRoma
I❤️Dobermans
Author: THE GIRLS OF ATOMIC CITY, THE LAST CASTLE, WE GATHER TOGETHER & other writerly whatnot
Books, &c: denisekiernan.com
Host: CRAFT: Authors in Conversation
#photography #climate #historynerd #vegan #ASRoma
I❤️Dobermans
Baking helps me edit.
Seriously.
Focus. Clear mind. Centering.
Important to keep flour off the keyboard, however.
#foodphotography #stunday #photography #foodsky #writingcommunity #booksky
Seriously.
Focus. Clear mind. Centering.
Important to keep flour off the keyboard, however.
#foodphotography #stunday #photography #foodsky #writingcommunity #booksky
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Baking helps me edit.
Seriously.
Focus. Clear mind. Centering.
Important to keep flour off the keyboard, however.
#foodphotography #stunday #photography #foodsky #writingcommunity #booksky
Seriously.
Focus. Clear mind. Centering.
Important to keep flour off the keyboard, however.
#foodphotography #stunday #photography #foodsky #writingcommunity #booksky
"THEY who adventure to impart their Works to publick view must resolve at the same time to have as many Censurers as Readers."
A line that still rings true today.
From "Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking," by philosophers and theologians Antoine Arnaud & Pierre Nicole.
#amwriting #history #philosophy
A line that still rings true today.
From "Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking," by philosophers and theologians Antoine Arnaud & Pierre Nicole.
#amwriting #history #philosophy
December 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
"THEY who adventure to impart their Works to publick view must resolve at the same time to have as many Censurers as Readers."
A line that still rings true today.
From "Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking," by philosophers and theologians Antoine Arnaud & Pierre Nicole.
#amwriting #history #philosophy
A line that still rings true today.
From "Logic, Or, the Art of Thinking," by philosophers and theologians Antoine Arnaud & Pierre Nicole.
#amwriting #history #philosophy
250 years ago today, Henry Knox wrote his wife, Lucy—who features prominently in my upcoming #book—that he will "over Lake George to Ticonderoga." His goal? secure weaponry for the Continental Army & and haul it to Cambridge, MA.
Via the awesome @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
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Via the awesome @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
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to Lucy Knox | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
to Lucy Knox | | A brief note to tell his wife that he has arrived near Fort Ticonderoga and is in good health. Comments that the battery is waiting for him, in reference to his orders from George…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
250 years ago today, Henry Knox wrote his wife, Lucy—who features prominently in my upcoming #book—that he will "over Lake George to Ticonderoga." His goal? secure weaponry for the Continental Army & and haul it to Cambridge, MA.
Via the awesome @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
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Via the awesome @gliamericanhistory.bsky.social
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That's it. I can't take it anymore.
The word "Soccer" originated in Oxford, ENG (known for its formative role in the English language) in the 19th century.
IT IS NOT AN AMERICAN WORD!!!!!
Here's a sample from a little article titled "Oxford Slang" in London's "Daily Telegraph" in 1899:
#WorldCupDraw
The word "Soccer" originated in Oxford, ENG (known for its formative role in the English language) in the 19th century.
IT IS NOT AN AMERICAN WORD!!!!!
Here's a sample from a little article titled "Oxford Slang" in London's "Daily Telegraph" in 1899:
#WorldCupDraw
December 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
That's it. I can't take it anymore.
The word "Soccer" originated in Oxford, ENG (known for its formative role in the English language) in the 19th century.
IT IS NOT AN AMERICAN WORD!!!!!
Here's a sample from a little article titled "Oxford Slang" in London's "Daily Telegraph" in 1899:
#WorldCupDraw
The word "Soccer" originated in Oxford, ENG (known for its formative role in the English language) in the 19th century.
IT IS NOT AN AMERICAN WORD!!!!!
Here's a sample from a little article titled "Oxford Slang" in London's "Daily Telegraph" in 1899:
#WorldCupDraw
Yet another reason to love and be thankful for
@archive.org
@archive.org
It’s Final Draw day for World Cup 26! ⚽️
Decades of FIFA & #WorldCup - related sites are preserved in the Wayback Machine; some of the 1 trillion pages saved.
Kick off a trip through the websites of the tournament & your favorite teams with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org
#Wayback1T
Decades of FIFA & #WorldCup - related sites are preserved in the Wayback Machine; some of the 1 trillion pages saved.
Kick off a trip through the websites of the tournament & your favorite teams with the #WaybackMachine ➡️ web.archive.org
#Wayback1T
December 5, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Yet another reason to love and be thankful for
@archive.org
@archive.org
@barryglendenning.bsky.social Very much relying on the levity of your live @us.theguardian.com coverage of the #WorldCup draw. It is keeping me from hurling my stuffed "Footix" from the '98 WC at the television.
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
@barryglendenning.bsky.social Very much relying on the levity of your live @us.theguardian.com coverage of the #WorldCup draw. It is keeping me from hurling my stuffed "Footix" from the '98 WC at the television.
As the holiday season is upon us, I share Sarah Fayerweather's #recipe for gingerbread from her 1764 cookbook. I came across this while researching my new #book at the wonderful Schlesinger Library @rad-institute.bsky.social.
#history #sistercentennial #cooking
#history #sistercentennial #cooking
December 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
As the holiday season is upon us, I share Sarah Fayerweather's #recipe for gingerbread from her 1764 cookbook. I came across this while researching my new #book at the wonderful Schlesinger Library @rad-institute.bsky.social.
#history #sistercentennial #cooking
#history #sistercentennial #cooking
For #GivingTuesday: A 1769 map of "ye great town of Boston" including, among other sites, the Alms House. These charitable institutions have a fascinating #history, and were an important part of colonial communities.
From ARGO, my fave portal for maps of the #Revolutionary Era.
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From ARGO, my fave portal for maps of the #Revolutionary Era.
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A new plan of ye great town of Boston in New England in America, with the many additionall [sic] buildings, & new streets, to the year, 1769 - American Revolutionary Geographies Online
American Revolutionary Geographies Online is a portal containing thousands of maps from dozens of institutions that bring to life the history and geography of the American Revolutionary War era.
www.argomaps.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
For #GivingTuesday: A 1769 map of "ye great town of Boston" including, among other sites, the Alms House. These charitable institutions have a fascinating #history, and were an important part of colonial communities.
From ARGO, my fave portal for maps of the #Revolutionary Era.
buff.ly/IQdmtRd
From ARGO, my fave portal for maps of the #Revolutionary Era.
buff.ly/IQdmtRd
250 years ago today:
Here are some prices out of #Boston, from calves feet & apples to water-bread & rum & "every other kind of necessaries in proportion."
From "American Archives: Fourth Series. Containing a Documentary History of The English Colonies in North America..."
#OTD #history #amwriting
Here are some prices out of #Boston, from calves feet & apples to water-bread & rum & "every other kind of necessaries in proportion."
From "American Archives: Fourth Series. Containing a Documentary History of The English Colonies in North America..."
#OTD #history #amwriting
December 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
250 years ago today:
Here are some prices out of #Boston, from calves feet & apples to water-bread & rum & "every other kind of necessaries in proportion."
From "American Archives: Fourth Series. Containing a Documentary History of The English Colonies in North America..."
#OTD #history #amwriting
Here are some prices out of #Boston, from calves feet & apples to water-bread & rum & "every other kind of necessaries in proportion."
From "American Archives: Fourth Series. Containing a Documentary History of The English Colonies in North America..."
#OTD #history #amwriting
Was reorganizing albums—yes, vinyl—and came across my copy of "The Fifes & Drums of Williamsburg." The 1975 album had extensive liner notes—remember those?—which included this 1775 ad from the "Virginia Gazette" offering to "learn" boys the "military musick of the fife and drum."
#history #music
#history #music
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A widowed mother of five with no formal education, who remarkably went on to become one of the most powerful magazine editors in America: Sarah Joseph Hale, daughter of a #RevolutionaryWar veteran, whose obsession with #thanksgiving was instrumental in creating the modern American tradition.
November 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
A widowed mother of five with no formal education, who remarkably went on to become one of the most powerful magazine editors in America: Sarah Joseph Hale, daughter of a #RevolutionaryWar veteran, whose obsession with #thanksgiving was instrumental in creating the modern American tradition.
"By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation...."
Oct 3, 1789, George Washington proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, to be a national day of "public #thanksgiving."
He gave thanks for, among other things, the "civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed.."
#history
Oct 3, 1789, George Washington proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, to be a national day of "public #thanksgiving."
He gave thanks for, among other things, the "civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed.."
#history
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"By the President of the United States of America. a Proclamation...."
Oct 3, 1789, George Washington proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, to be a national day of "public #thanksgiving."
He gave thanks for, among other things, the "civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed.."
#history
Oct 3, 1789, George Washington proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789, to be a national day of "public #thanksgiving."
He gave thanks for, among other things, the "civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed.."
#history
#Thanksgiving from the #Revolutionary Era continues:
General Orders issued Nov. 27, 1779, from Head-Quarters, Moores House at West Point:
"Therefore Resolved—That it be recommended to the several States to appoint thursday the ninth of December next to be a day of public and solemn Thanksgiving..."
General Orders issued Nov. 27, 1779, from Head-Quarters, Moores House at West Point:
"Therefore Resolved—That it be recommended to the several States to appoint thursday the ninth of December next to be a day of public and solemn Thanksgiving..."
November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
#Thanksgiving from the #Revolutionary Era continues:
General Orders issued Nov. 27, 1779, from Head-Quarters, Moores House at West Point:
"Therefore Resolved—That it be recommended to the several States to appoint thursday the ninth of December next to be a day of public and solemn Thanksgiving..."
General Orders issued Nov. 27, 1779, from Head-Quarters, Moores House at West Point:
"Therefore Resolved—That it be recommended to the several States to appoint thursday the ninth of December next to be a day of public and solemn Thanksgiving..."
#Thanksgiving from the archives:
"In Congress December 3rd 1778...
The Honorable The Congress ... to appoint Wednesday the 30th instant as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise for the great and numerous Providential Mercies experienced by the People of These States in the course of the present War..."
"In Congress December 3rd 1778...
The Honorable The Congress ... to appoint Wednesday the 30th instant as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise for the great and numerous Providential Mercies experienced by the People of These States in the course of the present War..."
November 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
#Thanksgiving from the archives:
"In Congress December 3rd 1778...
The Honorable The Congress ... to appoint Wednesday the 30th instant as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise for the great and numerous Providential Mercies experienced by the People of These States in the course of the present War..."
"In Congress December 3rd 1778...
The Honorable The Congress ... to appoint Wednesday the 30th instant as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise for the great and numerous Providential Mercies experienced by the People of These States in the course of the present War..."
In 1777, soldier Joseph Plumb Martin wrote of "a Continental thanksgiving ordered by Congress...We had nothing to eat for two or three days previous, except what the trees of the fields and forests afforded us." And for #thanksgiving? "...a half a gill of rice, and a table spoon full of vinegar!!"
November 24, 2025 at 2:33 AM
In 1777, soldier Joseph Plumb Martin wrote of "a Continental thanksgiving ordered by Congress...We had nothing to eat for two or three days previous, except what the trees of the fields and forests afforded us." And for #thanksgiving? "...a half a gill of rice, and a table spoon full of vinegar!!"
224 days 'til July 4, 2026. My countdown continues!
As American #Thanksgiving nears, I'm sharing iterations of "thanksgiving" proclaimed by the Continental Congress and others during the Revolutionary era:
July 24, 1766, John Adams wrote: "Thanksgiving for the Repeal of the Stamp-Act."
#history
As American #Thanksgiving nears, I'm sharing iterations of "thanksgiving" proclaimed by the Continental Congress and others during the Revolutionary era:
July 24, 1766, John Adams wrote: "Thanksgiving for the Repeal of the Stamp-Act."
#history
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 AM
224 days 'til July 4, 2026. My countdown continues!
As American #Thanksgiving nears, I'm sharing iterations of "thanksgiving" proclaimed by the Continental Congress and others during the Revolutionary era:
July 24, 1766, John Adams wrote: "Thanksgiving for the Repeal of the Stamp-Act."
#history
As American #Thanksgiving nears, I'm sharing iterations of "thanksgiving" proclaimed by the Continental Congress and others during the Revolutionary era:
July 24, 1766, John Adams wrote: "Thanksgiving for the Repeal of the Stamp-Act."
#history
Front page of the "Pennsylvania Evening Post" 250 years ago today.
The article evokes the fight for independence as a horse race between "Tyrant"
and "Liberty."
Spoiler alert: In the final stretch, it's Liberty by a nose.
#History #OTD #Revolution250
The article evokes the fight for independence as a horse race between "Tyrant"
and "Liberty."
Spoiler alert: In the final stretch, it's Liberty by a nose.
#History #OTD #Revolution250
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Front page of the "Pennsylvania Evening Post" 250 years ago today.
The article evokes the fight for independence as a horse race between "Tyrant"
and "Liberty."
Spoiler alert: In the final stretch, it's Liberty by a nose.
#History #OTD #Revolution250
The article evokes the fight for independence as a horse race between "Tyrant"
and "Liberty."
Spoiler alert: In the final stretch, it's Liberty by a nose.
#History #OTD #Revolution250
I traveled up and down the east coast researching my upcoming #nonfiction book, "Obstinate Daughters."
At Mount Vernon, I made sure to pay a visit to George Washington's "necessary."
Not sure why there are three seats.
I wasn't privy to that information.
(See what I did there?)
#history #travel`
At Mount Vernon, I made sure to pay a visit to George Washington's "necessary."
Not sure why there are three seats.
I wasn't privy to that information.
(See what I did there?)
#history #travel`
November 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I traveled up and down the east coast researching my upcoming #nonfiction book, "Obstinate Daughters."
At Mount Vernon, I made sure to pay a visit to George Washington's "necessary."
Not sure why there are three seats.
I wasn't privy to that information.
(See what I did there?)
#history #travel`
At Mount Vernon, I made sure to pay a visit to George Washington's "necessary."
Not sure why there are three seats.
I wasn't privy to that information.
(See what I did there?)
#history #travel`
The only existing image of Lucy Flucker, young privileged daughter of Boston Tories, who ran off with Patriot bookseller-turned-artillery whiz Henry Knox.
If you squint your eyes, poor Lucy looks like a whisk broom.
From the Massachusetts Historical Society.
#history #SisterCentennial #Rev250
If you squint your eyes, poor Lucy looks like a whisk broom.
From the Massachusetts Historical Society.
#history #SisterCentennial #Rev250
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The only existing image of Lucy Flucker, young privileged daughter of Boston Tories, who ran off with Patriot bookseller-turned-artillery whiz Henry Knox.
If you squint your eyes, poor Lucy looks like a whisk broom.
From the Massachusetts Historical Society.
#history #SisterCentennial #Rev250
If you squint your eyes, poor Lucy looks like a whisk broom.
From the Massachusetts Historical Society.
#history #SisterCentennial #Rev250
A little 18th-century #truecrime from "The NEWGATE CALENDAR; OR Malefactors Bloody Register." Courtesy of one of my favorite repositories of delightful curiosities, @hathitrust.bsky.social:
"GEORGE PRICE strangling his WIFE with the Thong of his Whip on Hounslow Heath."
(blood spatter mine)
#history
"GEORGE PRICE strangling his WIFE with the Thong of his Whip on Hounslow Heath."
(blood spatter mine)
#history
November 18, 2025 at 1:48 AM
A little 18th-century #truecrime from "The NEWGATE CALENDAR; OR Malefactors Bloody Register." Courtesy of one of my favorite repositories of delightful curiosities, @hathitrust.bsky.social:
"GEORGE PRICE strangling his WIFE with the Thong of his Whip on Hounslow Heath."
(blood spatter mine)
#history
"GEORGE PRICE strangling his WIFE with the Thong of his Whip on Hounslow Heath."
(blood spatter mine)
#history
As it's Sunday, I thought I'd share this print from ca. 1711 titled,
"A nonconformist minister" by artist "Marcellus Larson.
From the fascinating collections @clementslibrary.bsky.social. #history #art #booksky
"A nonconformist minister" by artist "Marcellus Larson.
From the fascinating collections @clementslibrary.bsky.social. #history #art #booksky
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 AM
As it's Sunday, I thought I'd share this print from ca. 1711 titled,
"A nonconformist minister" by artist "Marcellus Larson.
From the fascinating collections @clementslibrary.bsky.social. #history #art #booksky
"A nonconformist minister" by artist "Marcellus Larson.
From the fascinating collections @clementslibrary.bsky.social. #history #art #booksky
Wanna make a political statement? Wrap it up in a woman's tresses.
A go-to visual gag during the #AmericanRevolution on both sides of the Atlantic.
"Bunkers Hill or America's Head Dress."
Pub. April 19 by M. Darly, 1776. Retrieved from the British Museum.
More coming soon.
#history #illustration
A go-to visual gag during the #AmericanRevolution on both sides of the Atlantic.
"Bunkers Hill or America's Head Dress."
Pub. April 19 by M. Darly, 1776. Retrieved from the British Museum.
More coming soon.
#history #illustration
November 16, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Wanna make a political statement? Wrap it up in a woman's tresses.
A go-to visual gag during the #AmericanRevolution on both sides of the Atlantic.
"Bunkers Hill or America's Head Dress."
Pub. April 19 by M. Darly, 1776. Retrieved from the British Museum.
More coming soon.
#history #illustration
A go-to visual gag during the #AmericanRevolution on both sides of the Atlantic.
"Bunkers Hill or America's Head Dress."
Pub. April 19 by M. Darly, 1776. Retrieved from the British Museum.
More coming soon.
#history #illustration
Aurora Borealis is captivating in the news these days. For centuries, there have been various theories & observations about the phenomenon.
In 1778, Ben Franklin wrote: "Suppositions and Conjectures on the Aurora Borealis." buff.ly/utihTch
Here, an oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church from 1865.
In 1778, Ben Franklin wrote: "Suppositions and Conjectures on the Aurora Borealis." buff.ly/utihTch
Here, an oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church from 1865.
Aurora Borealis
Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006
americanart.si.edu
November 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Aurora Borealis is captivating in the news these days. For centuries, there have been various theories & observations about the phenomenon.
In 1778, Ben Franklin wrote: "Suppositions and Conjectures on the Aurora Borealis." buff.ly/utihTch
Here, an oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church from 1865.
In 1778, Ben Franklin wrote: "Suppositions and Conjectures on the Aurora Borealis." buff.ly/utihTch
Here, an oil on canvas by Frederic Edwin Church from 1865.
For Veteran's Day:
Margaret Corbin is the first woman in the U.S. to receive a military pension--
for her service in the #RevolutionaryWar.
This tomb effigy of Corbin was created by artist Zaq Landsberg as part of a temporary installation at the Cloisters in Upper Manhattan.
#history #photography
Margaret Corbin is the first woman in the U.S. to receive a military pension--
for her service in the #RevolutionaryWar.
This tomb effigy of Corbin was created by artist Zaq Landsberg as part of a temporary installation at the Cloisters in Upper Manhattan.
#history #photography
November 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
For Veteran's Day:
Margaret Corbin is the first woman in the U.S. to receive a military pension--
for her service in the #RevolutionaryWar.
This tomb effigy of Corbin was created by artist Zaq Landsberg as part of a temporary installation at the Cloisters in Upper Manhattan.
#history #photography
Margaret Corbin is the first woman in the U.S. to receive a military pension--
for her service in the #RevolutionaryWar.
This tomb effigy of Corbin was created by artist Zaq Landsberg as part of a temporary installation at the Cloisters in Upper Manhattan.
#history #photography